RHSA-2024:3139MediumCVSS 8.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: squashfs-tools security update

Published
May 22, 2024
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2021-40153 →CVE-2021-41072 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-40153 — squashfs-tools: unvalidated filepaths allow writing outside of destination CVE-2021-41072 — squashfs-tools: possible Directory Traversal via symbolic link

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-0:4.3-21.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-0:4.3-21.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-0:4.3-21.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-0:4.3-21.el8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-0:4.3-21.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debuginfo-0:4.3-21.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debuginfo-0:4.3-21.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debuginfo-0:4.3-21.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debuginfo-0:4.3-21.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debugsource-0:4.3-21.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debugsource-0:4.3-21.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debugsource-0:4.3-21.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • squashfs-tools-debugsource-0:4.3-21.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)